Manusmriti

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श्ववतां शौण्डिकानां च चैलनिर्णेजकस्य च । रञ्जकस्य नृशंसस्य यस्य चोपपतिर्गृहे ॥ २१६ ॥

sanskrit

By trainers of hunting dogs, publicans, a washerman, a dyer, a pitiless (man), and a man in whose house (lives) a paramour (of his wife),

english translation

zvavatAM zauNDikAnAM ca cailanirNejakasya ca | raJjakasya nRzaMsasya yasya copapatirgRhe || 216 ||

hk transliteration

राजान्नं तेज आदत्ते शूद्रान्नं ब्रह्मवर्चसम् । आयुः सुवर्णकारान्नं यशश्चर्मावकर्तिनः ॥ २१८ ॥

sanskrit

Nor (the food given) by those who knowingly bear with paramours (of their wives), and by those who in all matters are ruled by women, nor food (given by men) whose ten days of impurity on account of a death have not passed, nor that which is unpalatable.

english translation

rAjAnnaM teja Adatte zUdrAnnaM brahmavarcasam | AyuH suvarNakArAnnaM yazazcarmAvakartinaH || 218 ||

hk transliteration

कारुकान्नं प्रजां हन्ति बलं निर्णेजकस्य च । गणान्नं गणिकान्नं च लोकेभ्यः परिकृन्तति ॥ २१९ ॥

sanskrit

The food of a king impairs his vigour, the food of a Sudra his excellence in sacred learning, the food of a goldsmith his longevity, that of a leather-cutter his fame;

english translation

kArukAnnaM prajAM hanti balaM nirNejakasya ca | gaNAnnaM gaNikAnnaM ca lokebhyaH parikRntati || 219 ||

hk transliteration

कारुकान्नं प्रजां हन्ति बलं निर्णेजकस्य च । गणान्नं गणिकान्नं च लोकेभ्यः परिकृन्तति ॥ २१९ ॥

sanskrit

The food of an artisan destroys his offspring, that of a washerman his (bodily) strength; the food of a multitude and of harlots excludes him from (the higher) worlds

english translation

kArukAnnaM prajAM hanti balaM nirNejakasya ca | gaNAnnaM gaNikAnnaM ca lokebhyaH parikRntati || 219 ||

hk transliteration

पूयं चिकित्सकस्यान्नं पुंश्चल्यास्त्वन्नमिन्द्रियम् । विष्ठा वार्धुषिकस्यान्नं शस्त्रविक्रयिणो मलम् ॥ २२० ॥

sanskrit

The food of a physician (is as vile as) pus, that of an unchaste woman (equal to) semen, that of a usurer (as vile as) ordure, and that of a dealer in weapons (as bad as) dirt.

english translation

pUyaM cikitsakasyAnnaM puMzcalyAstvannamindriyam | viSThA vArdhuSikasyAnnaM zastravikrayiNo malam || 220 ||

hk transliteration